On 06/12/2018 05:22 PM, Chase wrote:
The headers can be changed with a simple used find and replace.
Which touches a lot of files and can be error prone...
It wasn't the install database, my bad, was thinking of something different,
its used in dtinfo, for the library dtmmdb, but the point still stands that we
do not possess copyright of that code.
Well, what would we do about it then? Just like with LGPL, we can of
course distribute it. So we would then need an MIT license for
everything expect the berkely stuff, which I assume it BSD licensed?
Looking at the license, it seems we are fine with it...
The first 2 clauses are just like MIT. The 3rd clause - we do not
advertise our use of it, so that one doesn't matter. 4th clause is
irrelevant for us. So I'm not seeing the problem...
I guess the only way to get the ball rolling is to wait for peter to get back
then... Shame as our move to MIT could fix the licensing issues when trying to
implement a newer version of ast-ksh.
Which also will not happen this release. I don't know, really what the
options are for us - I'm not a lawyer. Peter was the one who chose LGPL
for CDE along with TOG - though it seemed it didn't really matter to
them (TOG). So, may not be a big deal.
We would like to be GPL compatible so that other GPL projects could use our
code and contribute towards it.
We are currently GPL compatible. If/when we move to MIT, we will still
be GPL compatible... What am I missing?
-jon
Thank you for your time,
-Chase
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On June 12, 2018 6:05 PM, Jon Trulson <j...@radscan.com> wrote:
On 06/11/2018 06:15 PM, Chase via cdesktopenv-devel wrote:
Hi all,
I would like to know, what is holding up our move to the MIT license?
Well, I'd like to move to an MIT license, but I haven't heard any other
opinions. I am also not sure what would be involved, or ultimately,
whether there are any legal issues in doing so... I think Peter would
have to weigh in on that, and maybe even TOG? Maybe not.
Then there would be the fun job of swapping out all of the LGPL license
headers for MIT ones.
I don't think this is something that will be done quickly, certainly not
in time for an official release, which I'd like to not put off too long.
The only thing I can think of are the btree_berkeley files which we have
no rights to, but those are only used for the database for installation,
which we could get rid of if we fixed make install, it's all tied
together... How would one go about fixing make install anyways?
So - You are saying these btree berkely files are used by the install
database? I wasn't aware of that - I had though it was all shell script
driven. Where is this database, and why is it a problem?
Also, could we relicense the assets to CC-BY-SA-4.0? This ensures GPL
compatibility.
Let's not re-license anything in this round. If we were MIT, then would
we even care about GPL compatibility?
-jon
Thank you for your time,
-Chase
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